Metallic car-seal



(No Model.)

- J. E. LESUEUR.

METALLIC GAR SEAL.

No. 364,026. Patented May 31, 1887.

lwMmoow UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. LESUEUR, OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEEJ METALLIC CAR-SEAL.

EEPECIFICATIQN forming-part of Letters Patent No. 364,026, dated May 31,1887.

Application filed February 25, 1887. Serial No. 228,825. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern."

Be it known that I, JOHN E. LESUEUR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Nashville, in the county of Davidson and State of Tennessee,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvemepts in .Metallic Oar-Seals;and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to metallic car-seals; and it has for its objectto provide a simple and secure seal lock or fastening which cannot besurreptitiously opened without it being discovered; and it consists ofthe parts and combinations of parts hereinafter described and claimed,

' In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved seal; Fig. 2, a

. longitudinal section through the edge of the center of the same, thewire being broken off; and Fig. 3, a cross-section through the center ofthe seal, the wire in this view also being broken off.

A represents the body of the seal-blank or seal proper,which is made anysuitable shape, that shown beinga disk, and of any malleable metal, leadbeing preferred as cheap and durable and easily compressed by a handclamp or pinchers. In the edge of the disk two openings, a, of slightlygreater diameter than the wire to be used, are formed at a slightdistance apart, thus leaving a partition,'b,between them. opening orslot, 0, at about the center of the disk and continue through the sameto what, for convenience,may be called the lower end or bottom of theseal. Thus it will be seen that the metal is entirely removed from thecenter of the disk at one side of the same, rendering the coinpressionof the hollowed out easy.

B is the wire shackle which is to be passed through the lock or staple.This wire is out These openings merge into one large side thus V theproper length and bent at its center, and after having been passedthrough the lock or staple the ends are passed through the openings a,one end in each, and then the ends are bent in-oppositedirections ortoward each other and passed back into the opening 0, and on each sideof the partition 1) into the openings a, each end entering the openingopposite the one occupied by its main body, as clearly shownin Fig. 2,when the seal or the lower end thereof is compressed, locking the wiretightly and securely in position, from which it cannot be withdrawnwithout first destroying the seal. i

Thus it will be seen that my seal possesses great simplicity andsecurity, for the reason that the shackle is rigidly embedded in themetal and the same compactlywedged in and around it, while the ends ofthe shackle cross and lie one on the other in such a manner as to makeit impossible for one end thereof to be moved or removed withoutdisturbing the other, while its arrangement produces the same result aswould a continuous ring of metal, from the fact that its ends arevirtually welded together by the compression of the metal of the seal.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, isv A metallic seal composed of a soft-metalseal-blank, A, having the openings a, a partition, b, and a slot, 0, anda wire shackle, B,

bent at its middle portion, and having its ends passed through theopenings (1 and then bent in opposite directions or toward each otherand passed back into said openings, each end occupying the openingopposite that occupied by its main body, substantially as described. Intestimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

J. E. LESUEUR.

Witnesses: 4

JNo. D. ANDERSON, H. B. ANDERSON.

